Maggie Bergeron & Company. A Minneapolis modern dance company.

Maggie Bergeron & Company creates dance works by connecting engaging, resonant images with intriguing movement. Our work strives to stretch perceptions of the ordinary through contrast and idiosyncratic narrative. We always work in collaboration with dancers, musicians, carpenters, sound designers, and composers and are constantly looking for others to help shape what we do.

Upcoming

Prom Tour 2009: Leaver’s Ball. Maggie is being generously supported by the Jerome Foundation’s Travel and Study Grant in her research of the experience of Prom. She will attend prom in eight different cities across the country in Spring 2009 in preparation for Maggie Bergeron & Company’s August 2009 premiere of Leaver’s Ball, a collaboration with composer Doug Geers. Stay tuned for details!

About Maggie

Maggie Bergeron is a choreographer, dancer and teacher. She currently choreographs and directs Maggie Bergeron & Company, dances for Shapiro and Smith Dance and is on adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota’s Dance Program. She draws on personal experiences and observations to inform her teaching, dancing and choreography and is committed to engaging in collaborative processes in every aspect of her life.

Maggie graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy and the University of Minnesota with a BFA Summa cum Laude in Dance. Her choreography for Maggie Bergeron & Company has been seen at the Southern Theater, Walker Art Center, Best Feet Forward Festival, Kinetic Kitchen Dance Series, 9x22 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, The Spark Festival at the Ted Mann Theater in Minneapolis, MN, Keshet Dance Company in Albuquerque, NM, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, OH and Interlochen Center for the Arts, MI.

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Contact

maggie@maggiebdance.org

Donate

To support Maggie Bergeron & Company through cash donations, services, goods or collaborative ideas, please email Maggie.

Residencies

Maggie Bergeron & Company is available for residencies in schools, colleges and companies. Please email Maggie for rates and availability.

Accidentally Waling Through Nothing slideshow

Accidentally Walking Through Nothing

“Accidentally Walking Through Nothing” (12:00) methodically pieces together the idea of faith through the stories we tell ourselves to get through each day.

Performed: April 2008 at the Southern Theater as a part of the Shapiro and Smith Dance "Next Steps" concert. Commissioned by Shapiro and Smith Dance.
Dancers: Sarah Baumert, Eddie Oroyan, Laura Selle Virtucio
Composer: Aaron Sherraden
Costumes: Sarah Baumert

House/Home

“House/Home” (35:00) explores ideas of our houses/homes as characters through which we must navigate to create our own existences.

Performed: July 2007 at the Southern Theatre. Co-Commissioned by the Walker Art Center and the Southern Theater
Dancers: Sarah Baumert, Hannah Kramer, Leslie O’Neill, Jamie Ryan, Liz Wawrzonek, and Kandace Gaudette (understudy)
Composer: Chris Thomson
Set Design: Russell Colliton
Costumes: Sarah Baumert

A Is for Amy, Who Fell Down the Stairs

“A Is for Amy” (35:00) is based on an unfortunate children’s alphabet written and illustrated by Edward Gorey and uses childlike characters to explore the tenuous line between horror and humor.

Performed: June 2006 at the Red Eye Theater
Dancers: Sarah Baumert, Eric Boone, Nora Jenneman, Leslie O’Neill, Eddie Oroyan, Jamie Ryan, and Liz Wawrzonek
Composer: Chris Thomson

It Is Morning

“It Is Morning” (7:00) is a trio that deconstructs the person/personalities of Grace Marks, the convicted murderess and heroine of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace as she attempts to remember the unrememberable.

Performed: November 2005
Dancers: Leslie O’Neill, Eddie Oroyan and Anna Resele
Composer: Chris Thomson

Absent

“Absent” (6:45) is a quartet that creates an erie alternate reality as it explores the petty relationships sometimes developed and nurtured by girls and women.

Performed: February 2005
Dancers: Sarah Baumert, Eva Mohn, Leslie O’Neill, and Liz Wawrzonek
Sound: created by Maggie Bergeron and engineered by Collin Sherraden